🪶Indigenous / Native American
Compass Plant
Silphium laciniatum
About Compass Plant
Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Respiratory Issues, Fever, and Cough. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Silphium laciniatum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae, known commonly as compassplant or compass plant. It is native to North America, where it occurs in Ontario in Canada and the eastern and central United States as far west as New Mexico. Other common names include prairie compass plant, pilotweed, polarplant, gum weed, cut-leaf silphium, and turpentine plant. It is a rosinweed of genus Silphium.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal